ZSH: How to time a block of code?

Question

In bash I am able to write a script that contains something like this:

{ time {

#series of commands
echo \"something\"
echo \"another command\"
echo \"blah          


        

Answer 1

If you want to profile your code you have a few alternatives:

• Time subshell execution like:

  time ( commands ... )

• Use REPORTTIME to check for slow commands:

  export REPORTTIME=3 # display commands with execution time >= 3 seconds

• setop xtrace as explained here

• The zprof module